Current activities

We are currently organising the following activities:

15 May 2024, 11:00 - 12:45 - Book Launch 'Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka'

We invite you to a book launch hosted by author Bart Klem, an is Associate Professor in Peace and Development Studies at Gothenburg University, Sweden. The event will include interdisciplinary discussion. The book 'Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka' is available (open access) via the CUP website.

This book yields a compelling analytical narrative that shows how political institutions are enacted and witnessed, rather than cataloguing them in the strictures of the law. Additionally, it provides food for thought for broader conceptual debates concerning armed conflict and insurgency. 

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24 May 2024, 15:15 - 17:00 - Book Launch 'Between Neutrality and Solidarity: Swiss Good Offices in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992'

The Cold War Research Network and the Contesting Governance Platform of Utrecht University invite you to join us for the hybrid launch event of Dr. Liliane Stadler’s first book, Between Neutrality and Solidarity: Swiss Good Offices in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992. 

Published in the Brill Series New Perspectives on the Cold War, the volume represents the first in-depth analysis of Switzerland’s diplomatic involvement in Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion of 1979. It is a historical case study of the principal challenges that permanently neutral states face in times of international crisis and tension. At the same time, it examines the complex nature of the relationships between neutral state and non-state actors in situations of armed conflict through the perspective of new archival source material.  

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20 June 2024, 11:00 - 14.00 - Networking Event

We are organising an exciting networking event to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and dialogue. Aside from enjoying lunch together, we will get to know each other better through a game-based activity! 

More information to follow soon here!

28 June 2024, 15:30 - 17:00 - Book Launch 'Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border'

Turning the conventional story of trafficking around, Ieva Jusionyte follows firearms smuggled from the US to Mexico. She provides a look into the world of firearms trafficking, weaving together narratives and stories of the people affected by the cycle of violence happing on both sides of the border.

Joining the discussion are Dr. Aditi Saraf, Dr. León Castellanos-Jankiewicz, and Prof. Dr. Wil Pansters. The session will be moderated by Dr. Tessa Diphoorn. 

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